Trevor Laird
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 11, 1957 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Islington, London, England
- Credits
- 52
Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor.
Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel Playthings, directed by Stephen Frears, and several Play For Todays: Victims of Apartheid by Tom Clarke (1978),Barrie Keeffe's Waterloo Sunset (1979) and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles (1980).
Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play Welcome Home Jacko by Mustapha Matura the following year. He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film Quadrophenia - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic Babylon as Beefy. He played the boy under the car in The Long Good Friday (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's black British film Burning an Illusion.
Later appearances include the 1986 Doctor Who serial Mindwarp as the guard commander Frax. He later returned to Doctor Who in the role of Clive Jones, father of the Tenth Doctor's companion Martha Jones.
In 1996 Laird played Hortense's brother in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies. He played Wesley Carter in the TV series Undercover Heart, and Trevor in the British gangster film Love, Honour and Obey (2000). He played DI Mike Vedder “End of the Night”, S8:E4 of Waking the Dead (2009).
In 2015, Laird appeared as Vince Thuram in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise. In March 2021, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Samuel Asante.
Known for
Filmography
A Gangster's Kiss
2024Movie
Gilbert
To Be Someone
2021Movie
Rudy
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out
2021Movie
Self
Cruella
2021Movie
Asthma Man
Small Axe
2020TV
Augustin
Ted Lasso
2020TV
Denbo
National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019Movie
Hamlet
2016Movie
Polonius / Grave Digger 1
No Offence
2015TV
Upjohn Henderson
The Job Lot
2013TV
Delmar
Patriarch
2012Movie
Death in Paradise
2011TV
Vince Thuram
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011Movie
Lloyd Boateng
Thorne
2010TV
Assistant Commissioner
Trinity
2009TV
Barrington MacKenzie
Totally Doctor Who
2006TV
Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005TV
Doctor Who
2005TV
Clive Jones
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004TV
Le Mabé
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004Movie
Paddy Jones
Peep Show
2003TV
Laurie
The Last Detective
2003TV
Waking the Dead
2001TV
DI Mike Vedder
Undercover Heart
1998TV
Wesley Carter
Secrets & Lies
1996Movie
Hortense's Brother
Bernard and the Genie
1991Movie
PC Parker
Smack and Thistle
1991Movie
Baron Greenback
Birds of a Feather
1989TV
Andrew
Slipstream
1989Movie
Committee Member
The New Statesman
1987TV
Lance Okum-Martin
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986Movie
Frax
Call Me Mister
1986TV
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985Movie
Floyd
Flying Devils
1985Movie
Sepp
Water
1985Movie
Pepito
The Bill
1984TV
Big Deal
1984TV
Monty Riley
Struggle
1983TV
Charlie
Easy Money
1982Movie
Frederick
Jake's End
1982Movie
Heister
Pocketful of Dreams
1982Movie
Albert
Burning an Illusion
1981Movie
Pest
Babylon
1980Movie
Beefy
The Long Good Friday
1980Movie
Boy Under Car
Quadrophenia
1979Movie
Ferdy
Waterloo Sunset
1979Movie
Lester
The Vanishing Army
1978Movie
Sheldon
Victims of Apartheid
1978Movie
Bus conductor
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
Sheldon
Play Things
1976Movie
Harmon
Playhouse
1974TV
Harmon, Albert, Heister, Frederick
Doctor Who
1963TV
Frax